“My funky concrete seat walls are cooking the planet.” I love this. They are not my words, they are the words of Martin O’Dea. Words that came from last month’s 2022 NZILA Firth Conference. I love this, because these words drive a stake deep into the heart of the habitual norms of landscape architecture. And I too, am guilty.
Read MoreClimate change is about to be centre stage of world events with the COP27 talks set to begin in Egypt on November 6 but as NZILA/BECA Landscape Architect Craig Pocock notes, it has been a big month for his Carbon Landscape and as he says “validation is important because change often follows.'‘
Read MoreConcern over the environmental impact of the landscape architecture profession has led Texas-based Kiwi Landscape Architect Craig Pocock on a long and significant campaign to research and develop the concept of the ‘Carbon Landscape.’
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